Archive for the 'Finance' Category

Perfect timing

July 26, 2006

As the Mid East bows up, again, KIA found this article about releasing the country from dependence on foreign oil.  Without the oil wealth how combustible would those countries be these days?  If the pollution is the same as deisel why not increase the conversion rates or ask the manufactures to install original systems?  Can anyone [...]

AI

July 18, 2006

A nice summaryof current AI in today’s New York Times.  Seems people are still going to be needed for the foreseeable future. Nice top know AND we’ll be getting more and more help from the bots.  Chinese curse or not we do live in interesting times. Seems the bots are farily strong in the financial [...]

Smaller Chips Again

July 17, 2006

HP once more is moving tech forward with a still smaller powered chip.  1.4milimeter strikes KIA as more than remarkable, try revolutionary. Include 512,000 bytes and remote reading the as the KIA repeatedly repeats, the future is here now.  Can you find some fun things to do with this?  When are the economists going to [...]

Identity Theft

July 4, 2006

This latest NYTimes report shows the obvious flaw of responding to phishing but how do the legit companies overcome this problem? Toss in some phone tech and even the most careful consumers can be on the wrong end of one of these scams.  The single thieves are one thing, the organized ones…are, so far, outrunning the [...]

Splitsville and The Usual Reason

July 1, 2006

How many divorces are about the money? Billy Bragg and MySpace just split for the usual reason–money.  there may be a little respect thrown in but Mr. Bragg knew the rules before he joined.  Both sides get healdines and exposure and now to see if someone, anyone? (please?) can build a decent net business model in [...]

Party For The Net

June 30, 2006

The Know It All is thrilled with this news…a political party for the Internet. Officially covered in Wired we all need to stay involved.  Drop the good folks a line, spend some time here and in the political arena and help build that better world we all want.  Our very own third party is here.

And the Odd$ Are

June 26, 2006

Daniel Gilbert blogs on the odds of success in all of life. Worth you time. It was good enough for Paschal and Fermat.
Odds are you'll never play the lottery again and you'll be the big winner. Listen and find out.  Good luck from the Know It All.

Money and the Net

June 25, 2006

Sometimes it is nice to know that even the biggest of the big don't have all the answers.  The Know it All has been around  the net for longer than, well, just a long time, and has watched the growth with fun and fascination.  This report shows substantial dollars but small percentages.  The tech has outpaced [...]